Amazon says it resolved the underlying issues that caused an AWS outage starting around 10:45am ET and is “working towards recovery of any impaired services”
Yesterday AWS East experienced an outage, here are notable points: govtech.com : What caused Tuesday's major Amazon outage? Tweets: Shh / @worldwise001 : I'm almost certain the ima...
The AWS outage took down Amazon's Flex and Dolphin apps for logistics and time tracking, halting some deliveries
There's a mix of frustration and joy from workers as AWS outages cause chaos with Amazon's delivery infrastructure during its busy season. — Websites and online services …
Activision Blizzard staffers stage a walkout, demanding fairer treatment for underrepresented staff and an end to arbitration clauses in staff contracts
“This is the beginning of an enduring movement in favor of better labor conditions for all employees.” — Patrick Klepek
A summary of the draft paper co-authored by Timnit Gebru, which outlined the main risks of large language AI models and provided suggestions for future research
Companies are increasingly using employee survey data, from services like Perceptyx that offer a “union vulnerability index”, to predict and squash organizing
and crush — organizing efforts https://onezero.medium.com/... Doomscrolling Eternal / @hypervisible : “Thanks to a glut of tech platforms that deploy sophisticated methods for coll...
Black Amazon employees, many working in warehouses, urge Jeff Bezos to match his rhetoric on racial justice with actions to address “systemic” racial bias
From racist graffiti to missed promotions, employees say a “systemic pattern of racial bias” permeates the company. Tweets: @kyweise , @kyweise , @kyweise , @kyweise , @teamcoworke...
Tech labor leaders are organizing using Facebook Groups and sites like Coworker.org to prevent labor movements from being suppressed and surveilled by companies
break rooms or even water coolers — where workers can commiserate. This can leave people feeling isolated, but I wrote about the ways gig workers are organizing, often by reclaimin...
Sources: Amazon has begun cracking down on communication across its widely-read email listservs after employees used them to protest and organize
Shirin Ghaffary / Vox :
In internal email lists Amazon corporate employees express dismay over the firing of Christian Smalls and a report that management discussed a plan to smear him
“not smart, or articulate” — if the warehouse worker had been white. https://www.vox.com/... https://twitter.com/... R Givan / @rkgwork : “A worker at the bottom of our company's h...
In internal email lists Amazon corporate employees express dismay over the firing of Christian Smalls and a report that management discussed a plan to smear him
Leaked internal emails show employee dismay over how their company is handling escalating labor disputes during the coronavirus pandemic.
Sources: Google agrees to a worker council in Europe that could have more power to challenge company decisions after a request from 153 employees in 11 offices
Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg : Tweets: @teamcoworker , @brishenrogers , @tedonprivacy , @tri_becca90 , @stan_ds , @rj_gallagher , and @histoftech Tweets: @teamcoworker : “Google emp...
Increasingly automated job screening systems are forcing job seekers to adopt time-consuming tasks to be noticed, like writing application-specific resumes
because prejudice allowed them into those roles more easily—it will conclude that white males are the ‘best’ candidates.” https://www.vice.com/... @imani_barbarin : It's also ablei...
Target's Shipt delivery app workers describe a culture of retaliation and fear, say its algorithm pushes them to buy gifts for customers to boost their ratings
In late October, Ashley Johnson, a single mom and seasoned gig worker in a quiet Seattle suburb, tweeted about the decline …
Increasingly automated job screening systems are forcing job seekers to adopt time-consuming tasks to be noticed, like writing application-specific resumes
because prejudice allowed them into those roles more easily—it will conclude that white males are the ‘best’ candidates.” https://www.vice.com/... @imani_barbarin : It's also ablei...
Target's Shipt delivery app workers describe a culture of retaliation and fear, say its algorithm pushes them to buy gifts for customers to boost their ratings
In late October, Ashley Johnson, a single mom and seasoned gig worker in a quiet Seattle suburb, tweeted about the decline …
Experts say tech has made US labor laws obsolete and in need of a massive overhaul to benefit organizing workers, such as requiring safe digital meeting spaces
such as the right to digital meeting spaces and digital picket lines: https://www.vice.com/... @teamcoworker : “We recommend that employers should have to create digital meeting sp...
A look at the rise of tech activism in the 2010s led by blue-collar or contract workers, with a sharp rise in activism of full-time/white-collar workers in 2019
The Guardian : Tweets: @dotben , @organizejs , @angemariasolis , and @teamcoworker Tweets: Ben Metcalfe / @dotben : Even tech activism in 2019 reflects the divides of opportunity ...
A reflection on learnings about tech activism in the 2010s: a sharp rise since 2018, led by precarious workers, with Amazon and Google as the main targets
Our database of collective actions challenges the mainstream media narrative. Here are our eight key insights — Nataliya Nedzhvetskaya and JS Tan Tweets: @angemariasolis and @te...